Victorians deserve better than to be governed by a ruthless political machine in partnership with a renegade union at great cost to the state’s public finances.
The extraordinary thing about the virtual partnership between the Socialist Left Victorian Labor government and the law-breaking Victorian construction division of the CFMEU is the questions that no one is asking.
The courting of the CFMEU’s power and money appears to have been about bolstering the control of Premier Jacinta Allan’s Socialist Left faction over the Labor Party.has never had a proper cost-benefit analysis, nor been vetted by Infrastructure Australia. When the Victorian Auditor-General’s Office reviewed the government’s supposed business case, it found the proposed benefits were not based on robust analysis.
Building companies, relying on government tenders and needing to stay on side with the union, stayed silent. And state infrastructure authorities failed to intervene., union and industry sources claimed the deal was for the CFMEU to get coverage over civil in return for funding and political support ahead of the November 2022 state election.
Its presence is so normalised in modern Labor that ACTU secretary Sally McManus claimed in 2017 to know nothing about the forerunner of the CFMEU, the Builders Labourers Federation, which was
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